Depends on what this actually means? In politics I've seen it mostly mean that minorities shouldn't be allowed the same privileges as white men, or that we should enact the Christian equivalent of Sharia law.
This is why I prefer progressive values over traditional ones. Because it means we take the latest and most accurate information into account too, not simply what some primitive middle eastern farmers believed 2000 years ago.
Well, Obama certainly hasn't gotten "what the people want" very right.
Well, depends on which people you are talking about. For most of the other 6.7 billion people who don't live in the US, he got it right. As a member of the free world in which the POTUS claims leadership of, I want a leader who at least sounds like he finished high school. For some reason the Republicans don't seem to have too many of those.
Australians don't realise how bad flying is until we leave Australia.
Unless you go to Asia. Scoot and Air Asia fly everywhere throughout Asia with equal or better service than Qantas or Virgin. My last trip Sydney to Singapore 6300kms (3900miles) was $300. The same flight on Qantas is about $900.
Once there I could take flights pretty much anywhere for under $100.
If you listen carefully you can hear security crying its eyes out in the corner.
By security do you mean FUD merchants? IT Security is similar to the TSA in a lot of ways. All theatre and fear, no real results.
Just because some twit can imagine a worst case scenario doesn't mean it's going to happen. In my 20 year experience, over zealous patching has brought about more outages than anything else. So you'll excuse me if I take your TSA-like advice with a huge grain of salt.
but it's not uncommon on iOS for someone to have that many.
Really?
I just did a quick survey of the people in my office and not one was using more than 16GB (including music and movies) on any of their devices (both Apple and Android) . For most people, tablets are toys for facebooking, photos, email, web browsing, and a maybe some music. From my own group of acquaintances, not one uses them for regular movie or TV watching (although mnay admit to loading a movie or two if they intend taking a long haul flight), and not one has even 1GB of apps let alone 16+.
I think what he is saying is that the SBS needs periodic administration too. In fact, I know it does.
I disagree. I inherited an SBS box which was the company owner's personal server for another business he ran on the side. It was simple AD,Exchange and File Sharing with BES. I never touched the box once in the 3 years I was there and it ran reliably without issue. Even the main business's Exchange server I never touched. The helpdesk added and removed users and groups via AD but the server just ran fine all by itself without a single update, patch or reboot. Since Win2003, it is no longer the OS that needs administering, it is all the freaky poorly written apps that people choose to install on them. And since virtualisation and dedicated apps per server, I have found most servers run without issue once built. In my experience of working for dozens of companies and managing hundreds of servers, the biggest risk is not the server, it's admins who make poor choices with app configuration and patching/updates.
You can't solve financial problems by raising prices.
You can if you have a monopoly. As far as I can tell, there's only two players in the high end, high volume LCD business, and one of those is at war with Apple. That leaves Apple with only one choice of supplier.
The guy might be of questionable intent, but he isn't stupid.
Without having much knowledge of the subject matter, at a wild guess I'd say he plans to cover the costs by serving all me.ga data from NZ to the rest of the world, which effectively makes all peering arrangements hugely profitable since most traffic is outbound.
In any case I'm sure he knows more about this than you or I, so there must be a workable business model there somewhere.
My 7 year old laptop had a 1920x1200 resolution and when I bought a new one a few months ago I had to look all over just to find one that had a 1920x1080 resolution.
We share the same gripe.
Same here. This is being typed on a 7 year old Dell Inspiron with 1680x1050 simply because you can't get a low end higher res web machine for under $1000 these days.
Outside the race track, who cares? It is like saying my processor is 1 Mhz better than yours.
Well this was on a race track so it matters quite a lot. If this was about driving to work I could understand you point, but the experiment was to exactly to demonstrate the minute detail that differentiates the winner and loser on the race track.
That's ok, someone else will. Apple never had a success story before Angry Birds. Someone will be the Angry Birds of W8, clearly it won't be you, but that's the great thing about capitalism, someone out there will find a way to succeed where others have failed.
A year too late for what? Will there be no more mobile phone sales ever again? By all reports the smartphone market is still growing, and even if it wasn't people generally buy new devices every few years. This means there is space for a good product to take some market share. Whether Win8 is that product is another matter, but you'd be a fool to say write of the likes of MS (or Apple, Google or anyone else who has experience in this game).
Here's a hint for understanding power in the virtual realm -> if you need to work with others to achieve something, or need to get a judge to sign off on something, you're doing it wrong. If you need to call up a Bell to run a data tap to find the equivalent of the opportunistic thief robbing a 7-11...then you don't know enough about technology to 'fight' effectively.
You missed the part about having to wear a long black leather trench coat. Everyone knows that all the leet h@xx0rz all wear trench coats.
There's a lot of PHBs who find Cisco to be "reassuringly expensive".
A bit like Oracle, et al.
Let me fill you in on how it works. A manager doesn't care if the cheap solution works just as good, his job is to manage risk. The risk is that either solution fails and he has to front up to his boss. The argument will either be "I got the best kit (best by perception) for the job", or "I scrimped a few pennies and bought the cheaper version". Giving one of those answers during an outage gets you fired, which is why engineers generally don't make good managers (and are also glaringly obvious about there deficiencies in this subject).
And a good Windows administrator is just as scarce and will cost you about the same as a good Linux administrator. But with the Windows administrator you get the added cost of licenses.
And added benefit of more stuff working with it. A small but important point that always seems to be omitted in this place.
I was just standing there, watching people having their IDs checked, and failed to immediately comply told to move along. I got beaten up, arrested, and held overnight for fallacious reasons (being drunk). I sued the two cops for assault. They got off clean. I got a fine for good measure.
Fuck the police. And the justice system.
So next time move along. Is that so hard? I learnt this the hard way too when I was about 14 but I learnt form the experience. Yeah cops are cunts, but they have a tough job. It doesn't hurt me to move along when asked, and now I no longer get arrested.
Since you're not an American, perhaps you're not up to speed on some of what goes on here.
The military police assassinating people... break into peoples homes...police just break down the door...pets are almost always killed... terrified children watch... The father is often killed...The police...are NEVER reprimanded. The commanders are NEVER reprimanded.
So in the US the police kill everyone all the time and always get away with it. Right gotcha. And this gets modded insightful?
Ocean air is not the only corrosion to worry about. I've no clue what they intend to use to protect the alu hull with....
Wow, for someone with such experience you seem to not know much about boats. Aluminium is quite a common material to make boats with, just google "aluminium boat" if you need more info.
The poor schmuck tied to a desk all day is only one use case. I used to work in retail, all our in-store screens were mounted flat under glass counters to keep the counter space free for selling. The nature of a retail transaction means very little screen time user, so a surface type device would be perfect.
And besides, who would buy your app when the equivalents are in abundance on a lower cost platform like Android; or sexier ones like the iOS? That's the big question, and why Surface will be a disaster.
I've just ordered one. We have Apple and Android Tabs and phones already. If MS can do all that, and integrate with the existing MS world (AD, GPO, Office Sharepoint etc) then there will be no place the less featured incumbents. And you shouldn't focus so much on the ticket price, that argument may work for nerds living in their mum's basement, but the Enterprise is happy to pay more up front if it does more in the long run. It is why most enterprises pay more for MS than "cheaper" FOSS alternatives right now.
An old bit of wisdom I heard once upon a time, "Winners talk about winning, losers talk about winners". Lately Apple seem to spend a lot of time talking about Samsung, Google and Microsoft. It says a lot about their own perception of themselves in the market.
I can write a letter with Wordperfect 3.0 perfectly fine, thanks. And it runs on my Zeos 386sx hunky dory. If all I want to do is to type documents, I NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE. Ever. Ever.
I know several businesses - including accounting firms, customs brokers, etc - that are running staggeringly ancient software on a simple server that pretty much is never touched. If it does what they need it to do, why would they EVER change?
Not long ago my neighbour came over and asked me if I could help with a PC he was having trouble with at his workshop. I don't normally do this sort of thing but he works in an engineering shop (real engineering - making stuff out of metal) and was working on an electric car project that I wanted to check out, so offered to take a look. Well I get there and his PC is a 386 running DOS 5! It only runs one application, and CAD app that controlled a gas axe robot. If it works, why change?
In this case it stopped working due to hardware failure (hey 20 years isn't a bad run for a PC in a metalwork shop). This is where I see virtualisation saving us form the endless upgrade treadmill. Abstract the App and OS from the hardware, then you never need to upgrade you app ever again.
At one point, we *had* to code. Tools didn't exist until we made them. Or at least tools that did what *we* wanted didn't exist until we made them.
I blame Windows weenies for the loss of this skill. They cannot function without pre-packaged clicky things. Nitwits.
Fucking weenies and their electricity, I bet those nitwits have no idea how to create a flame from their bare hands. Bloody progress, how dare they make life easier for people.
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And are "Traditional Values" always a bad thing?
Depends on what this actually means? In politics I've seen it mostly mean that minorities shouldn't be allowed the same privileges as white men, or that we should enact the Christian equivalent of Sharia law. This is why I prefer progressive values over traditional ones. Because it means we take the latest and most accurate information into account too, not simply what some primitive middle eastern farmers believed 2000 years ago.
Well, Obama certainly hasn't gotten "what the people want" very right.
Well, depends on which people you are talking about. For most of the other 6.7 billion people who don't live in the US, he got it right. As a member of the free world in which the POTUS claims leadership of, I want a leader who at least sounds like he finished high school. For some reason the Republicans don't seem to have too many of those.
note that liters and kilometers are the same everywhere! ;)
Except everywhere outside the US where they're known as 'litres' and 'kilometres'.
Australians don't realise how bad flying is until we leave Australia.
Unless you go to Asia. Scoot and Air Asia fly everywhere throughout Asia with equal or better service than Qantas or Virgin. My last trip Sydney to Singapore 6300kms (3900miles) was $300. The same flight on Qantas is about $900. Once there I could take flights pretty much anywhere for under $100.
If you listen carefully you can hear security crying its eyes out in the corner.
By security do you mean FUD merchants? IT Security is similar to the TSA in a lot of ways. All theatre and fear, no real results. Just because some twit can imagine a worst case scenario doesn't mean it's going to happen. In my 20 year experience, over zealous patching has brought about more outages than anything else. So you'll excuse me if I take your TSA-like advice with a huge grain of salt.
but it's not uncommon on iOS for someone to have that many.
Really? I just did a quick survey of the people in my office and not one was using more than 16GB (including music and movies) on any of their devices (both Apple and Android) . For most people, tablets are toys for facebooking, photos, email, web browsing, and a maybe some music. From my own group of acquaintances, not one uses them for regular movie or TV watching (although mnay admit to loading a movie or two if they intend taking a long haul flight), and not one has even 1GB of apps let alone 16+.
I think what he is saying is that the SBS needs periodic administration too. In fact, I know it does.
I disagree. I inherited an SBS box which was the company owner's personal server for another business he ran on the side. It was simple AD,Exchange and File Sharing with BES. I never touched the box once in the 3 years I was there and it ran reliably without issue. Even the main business's Exchange server I never touched. The helpdesk added and removed users and groups via AD but the server just ran fine all by itself without a single update, patch or reboot. Since Win2003, it is no longer the OS that needs administering, it is all the freaky poorly written apps that people choose to install on them. And since virtualisation and dedicated apps per server, I have found most servers run without issue once built. In my experience of working for dozens of companies and managing hundreds of servers, the biggest risk is not the server, it's admins who make poor choices with app configuration and patching/updates.
You can't solve financial problems by raising prices.
You can if you have a monopoly. As far as I can tell, there's only two players in the high end, high volume LCD business, and one of those is at war with Apple. That leaves Apple with only one choice of supplier.
He is not so naive to think...
The guy might be of questionable intent, but he isn't stupid. Without having much knowledge of the subject matter, at a wild guess I'd say he plans to cover the costs by serving all me.ga data from NZ to the rest of the world, which effectively makes all peering arrangements hugely profitable since most traffic is outbound. In any case I'm sure he knows more about this than you or I, so there must be a workable business model there somewhere.
My 7 year old laptop had a 1920x1200 resolution and when I bought a new one a few months ago I had to look all over just to find one that had a 1920x1080 resolution.
We share the same gripe.
Same here. This is being typed on a 7 year old Dell Inspiron with 1680x1050 simply because you can't get a low end higher res web machine for under $1000 these days.
Outside the race track, who cares? It is like saying my processor is 1 Mhz better than yours.
Well this was on a race track so it matters quite a lot. If this was about driving to work I could understand you point, but the experiment was to exactly to demonstrate the minute detail that differentiates the winner and loser on the race track.
That's ok, someone else will. Apple never had a success story before Angry Birds. Someone will be the Angry Birds of W8, clearly it won't be you, but that's the great thing about capitalism, someone out there will find a way to succeed where others have failed.
You and Microsoft are about a year too late.
A year too late for what? Will there be no more mobile phone sales ever again? By all reports the smartphone market is still growing, and even if it wasn't people generally buy new devices every few years. This means there is space for a good product to take some market share. Whether Win8 is that product is another matter, but you'd be a fool to say write of the likes of MS (or Apple, Google or anyone else who has experience in this game).
Here's a hint for understanding power in the virtual realm -> if you need to work with others to achieve something, or need to get a judge to sign off on something, you're doing it wrong. If you need to call up a Bell to run a data tap to find the equivalent of the opportunistic thief robbing a 7-11...then you don't know enough about technology to 'fight' effectively.
You missed the part about having to wear a long black leather trench coat. Everyone knows that all the leet h@xx0rz all wear trench coats.
There's a lot of PHBs who find Cisco to be "reassuringly expensive".
A bit like Oracle, et al.
Let me fill you in on how it works. A manager doesn't care if the cheap solution works just as good, his job is to manage risk. The risk is that either solution fails and he has to front up to his boss. The argument will either be "I got the best kit (best by perception) for the job", or "I scrimped a few pennies and bought the cheaper version". Giving one of those answers during an outage gets you fired, which is why engineers generally don't make good managers (and are also glaringly obvious about there deficiencies in this subject).
And a good Windows administrator is just as scarce and will cost you about the same as a good Linux administrator. But with the Windows administrator you get the added cost of licenses.
And added benefit of more stuff working with it. A small but important point that always seems to be omitted in this place.
I was just standing there, watching people having their IDs checked, and failed to immediately comply told to move along. I got beaten up, arrested, and held overnight for fallacious reasons (being drunk). I sued the two cops for assault. They got off clean. I got a fine for good measure.
Fuck the police. And the justice system.
So next time move along. Is that so hard? I learnt this the hard way too when I was about 14 but I learnt form the experience. Yeah cops are cunts, but they have a tough job. It doesn't hurt me to move along when asked, and now I no longer get arrested.
Since you're not an American, perhaps you're not up to speed on some of what goes on here.
The military police assassinating people... break into peoples homes...police just break down the door...pets are almost always killed... terrified children watch... The father is often killed...The police...are NEVER reprimanded. The commanders are NEVER reprimanded.
So in the US the police kill everyone all the time and always get away with it. Right gotcha. And this gets modded insightful?
"IBM has apparently made a breakthrough..." They either have or haven't made breakthrough. "Apparently" doesn't really cut it I'm sorry.
Ocean air is not the only corrosion to worry about. I've no clue what they intend to use to protect the alu hull with....
Wow, for someone with such experience you seem to not know much about boats. Aluminium is quite a common material to make boats with, just google "aluminium boat" if you need more info.
The poor schmuck tied to a desk all day is only one use case. I used to work in retail, all our in-store screens were mounted flat under glass counters to keep the counter space free for selling. The nature of a retail transaction means very little screen time user, so a surface type device would be perfect.
And besides, who would buy your app when the equivalents are in abundance on a lower cost platform like Android; or sexier ones like the iOS? That's the big question, and why Surface will be a disaster.
I've just ordered one. We have Apple and Android Tabs and phones already. If MS can do all that, and integrate with the existing MS world (AD, GPO, Office Sharepoint etc) then there will be no place the less featured incumbents. And you shouldn't focus so much on the ticket price, that argument may work for nerds living in their mum's basement, but the Enterprise is happy to pay more up front if it does more in the long run. It is why most enterprises pay more for MS than "cheaper" FOSS alternatives right now.
An old bit of wisdom I heard once upon a time, "Winners talk about winning, losers talk about winners". Lately Apple seem to spend a lot of time talking about Samsung, Google and Microsoft. It says a lot about their own perception of themselves in the market.
This is, simply, bullshit.
I can write a letter with Wordperfect 3.0 perfectly fine, thanks. And it runs on my Zeos 386sx hunky dory. If all I want to do is to type documents, I NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE. Ever. Ever.
I know several businesses - including accounting firms, customs brokers, etc - that are running staggeringly ancient software on a simple server that pretty much is never touched. If it does what they need it to do, why would they EVER change?
Not long ago my neighbour came over and asked me if I could help with a PC he was having trouble with at his workshop. I don't normally do this sort of thing but he works in an engineering shop (real engineering - making stuff out of metal) and was working on an electric car project that I wanted to check out, so offered to take a look. Well I get there and his PC is a 386 running DOS 5! It only runs one application, and CAD app that controlled a gas axe robot. If it works, why change? In this case it stopped working due to hardware failure (hey 20 years isn't a bad run for a PC in a metalwork shop). This is where I see virtualisation saving us form the endless upgrade treadmill. Abstract the App and OS from the hardware, then you never need to upgrade you app ever again.
At one point, we *had* to code. Tools didn't exist until we made them. Or at least tools that did what *we* wanted didn't exist until we made them.
I blame Windows weenies for the loss of this skill. They cannot function without pre-packaged clicky things. Nitwits.
Fucking weenies and their electricity, I bet those nitwits have no idea how to create a flame from their bare hands. Bloody progress, how dare they make life easier for people.